Today I got tired of Synaptic, Update Manager, and GDebi not working with going through a terminal window and using sudo. So I reintalled Synaptic by launching sudo synaptic. After a reboot, all three apps appear to be working properly. I am closing this bug.
** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed -- Synaptic Not Prompting For Password/Hangs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/402781 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs